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A History of Iniquity

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A History of Iniquity is a history-and-true-crime podcast about real crimes from the deep past — and the civilisations that produced them. Each episode, host Ryan Wolf takes a single documented crime from the ancient or pre-modern world — a murder, a conspiracy, a betrayal, a trial — and uses it as a doorway into the world it happened in: the politics, the daily life, the beliefs, and above all the law. Because you can't understand the crime until you understand the world. A trained lawyer with a lifelong love of history, Ryan is fascinated by both halves — the world-building and the justice —...

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Ancient Egypt - "Stir up the People!" | The Murder of Ramessess III 23.06.2026 43:21

Three thousand years ago, an Egyptian pharaoh was murdered in his own palace — and for three thousand years, no one could prove it happened. In the first episode of A History of Iniquity , Ryan Wolf travels to the twilight of Egypt's golden age to tell the story of the Harem Conspiracy: the secondary wife, Tiye, who plotted to assassinate Ramesses III and crown her own son, and the web of official...